SHAKESPEARE By Kieran and Holly.

HIS FAMOUS PLAYS PeriodHistory playsTragediesComediesPoems 1 Before 1594 Henry VI part 1 Henry VI part 2 Henry VI part 3 Richard III Titus AndronicusComedy of Errors Taming of the Shrew Two Gentlemen of Verona Love’s Labour’s Lost Venus and Adonis Rape of Lucrece Richard II King John Henry IV, part 1 Henry IV, part 2 Henry Romeo and JulietMidsummer Night`s Dream Merchant of Venice Merry Wives of Windsor Much Ado About Nothing As You Like It Sonnets III Julius Caeser Hamlet Othello Timon of Athens King Lear Macbeth Antony and Cleopatra Coriolanus Twelfth Night Troilus and Cressida Measure for Measure All’s Well That Ends Well Pericles IV Henry VIIICymbeline The Winter’s Tale The Tempest

ROMEO AND JULIET  Romeo and Juliet met at a masked ball. They instantly fell in love  Their families were enemies  The feud lasted so long that the families remembered what it was about  Romeo and Juliet died because of this

INTERESTING FACTS He was a great poet often called Bard of Avon.

ACROSTIC  Shakespeare was a very good poet  He was born in 23 rd April 1564  Ann Hathaway was his wife  King of literature  Everyone loves his famous plays  Shakespeare died on April 23rd 1616  Pericles one of his plays  Eloquent use of the English language  Are you a Shakespeare fan  Round the world people know  Elopement was proposed by Romeo and Juliet

COOL PICTURES SSHAKESPEARE AND HIS WIFE

BIRTH OF SHAKESPEARE William Shakespeare was born April 29, 1564 in Stratford-upon- Avon, England.

ANNE HATHAWAY Born 1555/56 Shottery, Warwickshire, England Died 6 August 1623 (aged 67) Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England OccupationHomemaker Known forWife of William Shakespeare Spouse William Shakespeare (m. 1582– 1616) Children Susanna Hall Hamnet Shakespeare Judith Quiney

HE DIED IN  Shakespeare died on April 23,rd 1616  he died on April 23, 1616, three days before his fifty-second birthday.

SHAKESPEARE’S USE TODAY This following extract is from William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Act III, scene 2 was used in the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games ‘Be not afeard; the Isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments will hum about mine ears, And sometimes voices that, if I then had waked after a long sleep, Will make me sleep again; And then, in dreaming, the clouds methought would open and show riches ready to drop upon me, that when I waked, I cried to dream again’

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